Reality? His hazel each August
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I think the dream of many gardeners - to breed in the area is a real nut, giving a real summer hazelnuts. The fruits are delicious, useful, but... expensive in the store. And then you can grow your own hands is almost free. Then I read that some have planted a shrub as an ornamental plant.
Looking ahead, I will say: hazel - common hazel - can be grown in all regions of Russia, if on winters air temperature does not fall below -40 ° C. Exception - some varieties with high yields, which will podmorozheny cooling below -30 ° C. And as a whole hazelnut - Culture frost. Why not try?
But it is quite unpretentious hazel not exactly be called. A good harvest will bush growing under suitable conditions, and which is constantly maintained. Otherwise, we have to settle for just a dozen second-nuts per season.
Lyrical digression: Someone may object: "Yes, over there, in the woods a matter grows, the hell care?". But wild hazel chooses where she grow in their requests. I live in an interesting location near Tver, on the one hand - the peat bogs with water meadows, on the other - fir forests on the hill, you will pass further - here's birch. And hazel is only in a couple of places.
Gardener planting hazelnuts on a site does not offer this choice. Therefore, the only correct option - to artificially create a young hazel favorable atmosphere. I am telling of a fad!
What type of soil will like hazel
If we talk about a good harvest of hazelnuts in their own country, then first of all it is about land. Hazel need fertile soil, rich in humus, without water stagnation at the roots.
Lands on acid 2 times a year you need to lime tree trunks, because with the acid-alkaline balance of the harvest can not wait for the word at all, unfortunately. Therefore it is necessary to remember that the hazel like lime.
Where to plant hazel to give a good harvest
In the forest, wild hazel grows in the undergrowth on the edges and in the shade of large trees. But with the cultural planting this trick is not a ride. It is better to plant hazelnuts on a well-lit area, the maximum - in the light penumbra.
Hazel feels good, that is protected from the wind, especially the north. So you should choose a warm, cozy place - so the harvest will be more.
Other tricks that are not less important
- Hazel in the spring fed nitrogen fertilizer (to grow new shoots and leaves), at the beginning of the summer make humus + potassium-phosphorus fertilizer, in the autumn - potash. So the need for food in hazelnuts, who loves to eat, will be closed.
- Common hazel does not like drought. Warm summer, when the ground is dry, water the bush should be large volume of water.
- Every year hazelnut cut sick and thickening branches. Every 5 years renewal pruning is carried out, because the young shoots of growth becomes very small and reduces the yield of nuts to naught.
- Hazel is not pollinated by itself, alas. To always collect a lot of hazelnuts, should plant a few bushes. It is desirable to find at least one other variety. So efficiency will be much higher!
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